Acquiring backlinks is an important part of establishing your website’s link popularity and increasing your PR ranking with search engines. Links to your site basically count as an endorsement of your site’s relevance, so the more backlinks you have, the higher ranked your website pages will be. So how does one go about acquiring backlinks? To help you out, we put together a list of the top ways for you to acquire backlinks for your real estate website:
1. Commenting on Blogs is a great way to acquire backlinks. As you are leaving your comments in the blog posts, be sure you are providing relevant comments and not just leaving your URL. If your comments aren’t useful or relevant, the page owner will likely remove the comments as spam. Also, don’t go overboard with your blog comments. Try to comment on a variety of blog sites and keep it to a few blog posts each day.
UPDATE (Following Google Penguin update): Although we still recommend commenting on blogs as a link building strategy, we do not recommend commenting exclusively on DoFollow blogs, as this will appear unnatural and can potentially hinder your SEO efforts with Google.
2. Publishing Articles on article directory sites such as EzineArticles is another strategy for link building. Not only does EzineArticles have a high PR Ranking, but you can also use keyword linking in your articles so that you are targeting the specific keywords you are trying to optimize.
3. Writing Press Releases with keyword links and publishing them through Press Release Distribution sites like PRWeb.com can also be a valuable way to build backlinks. PRWeb will get your press release published on other websites for you creating a large number of instant backlinks.
4. Guest Blogging on Industry related websites or community blogs will also help your link building strategy. So offer to write a blog article for a colleague’s website or request to be a guest blogger for Realtor.org. Most websites welcome guest bloggers as it gives them more content and one less article for them to write!
5. Submit your website URL to directories like Yelp, Zillow, Realtor.com, etc. Most times it’s easy and free to create a profile and the benefit is having a backlink on high PR Ranked sites. As an added bonus, creating profiles on review sites like Yelp and asking your clients to write reviews for you will go a long way to helping you build your online reputation!
One last thing to keep in mind when you are creating backlinks is that backlinks from websites with a high PR ranking or page rank, are more valuable than backlinks from websites with low PR ranking. Therefore, you should try to achieve links from highly ranked sites (I’d recommend PR3 or above).
Hope these tips help you with your link building strategy! Do you have any great tips for link building?
Great resource! Google Penguin update was rolled since this blog post. Google may now potentially punish for unnatural appearing links. A large percentage of do-follow links may appear unnatural to Google and therefore will DROP you in rank for the keywords you target.
Agreed!
I agree Google really is looking for what they consider to be natural linking theses days. These are all still great ways to get links, but now you really have to pace yourself and make sure that you have different types and not load up on one particular type such as commenting, forums or directory listings. If you focus on one particular type of links instead or do a ton of one type at once, that will surely look unnatural.
A large percentage of do-follow links may appear unnatural to Google and therefore will DROP you in rank for the keywords you target.
I’m reading the same topics. I’m looking for better ways to boost search engine ranking without getting in trouble with google. Thanks. BTW good post.
You can also post presentations on document sites like scribd, slideshare, etc. Most of them have decent domain authority and page rank.
Mark,
Great post on backlinks. Below is a link to a blog I wrote on the same topic. Last week, my SEO person legitimately took my site link count from around 300 to over 28,000 which are all relevant, real estate-related sites doing something creative with anchor text. I would be happy to put you or any of your followers in touch with him. Thanks. Gary
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🙂 I appreciate you posting the links for folks to find other do-follow real estate blogs! This nofollow business sure does make it a lot harder.
Good comment. Easy to find places to see houses. A solid blog will deliver community information as well…
Great resource! Google Penguin update was rolled since this blog post..I agree Google really is looking for what they consider to be natural linking theses days.
It can, in fact, be a never ending process, but what a learning experience.
And, as you write and post more and more articles, these backlinks will increase your
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Hey, thanks for the information and encouragement to others. It’s not a sprint. It’s an endurance test…
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Mark, great article… I recently started working hard to promote my real estate website, and because my budget is limited I am looking for something I could do myself and link building sounds just great. There aren’t many good SEO articles focused on real estate.
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Thanks for the info. Not only are those blogs do follow, they are good blogs with good info in general.
Great article on getting started with link building. I would caution people to be careful with the article submissions and the anchor text in press releases. These tips can help new websites gain ranking for less competitive keywords. Go for the low hanging fruit in other words.
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Good Article, I believe writing press article would be a waste of time now, many platforms have been shut down by google recently, it’d be better writing content for his own website.
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I have found that spending the time to just use organic content on your own website works very well. You just need to spend some time each week. Thanks for the info Mark, every little bit helps.
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This is all good information that I have read before. However, I think that if guest blogging, which is contributing actual content to the web, is frowned on by Google then how can we expect blog comments to add any SEO value? Do-follow, no-follow or other wise. Yes, everyone says high-quality, natural-looking backlinks. What is natural-looking for a real estate site? Who needs to link to a local real estate site that is essentially a branded MLS tool? It is very difficult, though not impossible, for real estate sites to get the ideal type of back links I think this is why I see so many real estate sites violating the so-called rules of SEO but still rank on page one of the SERP. Google must realize that based upon the industry the need/ease of getting “high-quality” the standard may have to be lowered for some industries.
Sasha, Real Estate sites need to be more than just branded MLS tools even if the searching and browsing are the most important features on the site. http://www.FinemanTeam.com offers the South Florida searchers an day way to browse by community and country club, which the local MLS really doesn’t do very well. Also, it gives the searcher the option to view all the 55 plus communities, which is a large portion of the market. Find what “niche” there is in your market, and then make that a section of your website, already separated out for easy browsing. Real Estate sites need MLS tools.
Kathleen Fineman
http://www.FinemanTeam.com
Realtor, Boca Raton, Florida
Great information, especially about the “do follow” linking opportunities. What I appreciated most about your article, Mark, is that you stressed the value of content in everything you contribute, whether on someone else’s site for linking purposes or on your own website. I’m relatively new at working to up my SEO, but you are definitely one of the best threads about it I have found. Thanks. Kathleen Fineman,
Realtor, Boca Raton, Florida http://www.FinemanTeam.com
Great information regarding “do follow” linking.
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Mark I agree with all the techniques you have mentioned above, they do work very well.
But I’d like to add a few more ways.
Social medias are playing a vital role in ranking now. So being active on social media is a must.
Commenting on .gov and .edu sites can bring a lot of value to our website.
Yes, and that social media content can juice some link back credit . . .
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Great tips Mark!! Whoever is going for guest blogging, just make sure that the contents need to be of good quality because Google’s algorithm will know if it is created only for link or giving actual value.
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My website is PR2 (Google Page Two Ranking) but I’m still looking forward to boost it up to a more competitive PR. There’s nothing much better than having a quality back-link from a high PR site. Also we should consider the relevance of our content, like how it is satisfying to the viewers.
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Thank you, Paul! Keep up the good work on http://www.housetohomerealestate.com/
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Castle Hills Real Estate
https://www.castlehillsrealestate.com/
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Do you still think guest blogging and article submissions are ok considering Matt Cutts recent comments? Seems like they may be risky now
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Trying to do a bit of everything at the moment. Not sure what is best? I do not think you can beat in the long run a decent selection of directory backlinks. Trends come and go with Google, but the good and trusted backlink has always been around. The knack is finding high ranking do follow backlinks that stick long term.
Press releases are a good alternative, but must be well written in order to grab attention. There are plenty of free and low cost options available.Worth exploring further ….
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I reuse supporting links often because I don’t care about them weakening in link power since I’m only using them to dilute and diversify my link and anchor profile.
For “Power” links it’s a different story. I’ll hit a target site with 1-3 links max from the same domain because I don’t want the power links to weaken since they do most of the ranking work.
Hope that makes sense, let me know if I need to clarify haha
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